Schaff v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This disposes of every question presented in the petition for writ of error. But, by oral and written argument, on submission of this cause, plaintiffs in error raise, and seek to have determined, whether the judgment is not fundamentally erroneous, under the state of the law, when Mason was injured, with respect to a receiver’s liability for injuries resulting in death, caused by negligence of the receiver’s servants. So well settled is the practice in this court, which denies a reversal to a plaintiff in error for. errors not assigned in his petition, that new assignments are never considered, no matter what may be their nature, even when presented in an amended petition for writ of error, unless the amended petition is filed within thirty days from the date on which motion for rehearing is overruled in the Court of Civil Appeals, as required by article 1541 of the Revised Statutes.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Quarles v. Hardin